Problems with grub 0.90 and Promise FastTrak 100 TX2

[Bernhard Bock]

Hi *!

I have a problem with booting over my new IDE Controller.

Short description: Grub says "GRUB " at boot time and dies. I have found
nothing appropriate in the list archives or in google :-( I hope someone here
can help me.

Long description:
My configuration is:
2 40GB drives as master at the primary and secondary interface of the
Promise card (/dev/hde and /dev/hdg in linux), an old 1.7GB disc at /dev/hda
(onboard interface).
When I activate the old drive in the bios, it boots just fine (that is just
for debugging; I don't want that). But when I disable it in the bios, the
system tries to boot from the 1st 40GB drive and fails.

The 2 40GB drives are configured as follows:
/dev/hde1 and /dev/hdg1 are 16MB, RAID1 (raidtools, /dev/md0) mounted on
/boot
/dev/hde2 and /dev/hdg2 are 2x128MB swap space
/dev/hde3 and /dev/hdg3 (the rest) is a RAID1 (raidtools, dev/md1) and LVM,
root fs.

The docs say that grub dies with some explicit error messages if it is not
installed properly. I get no messages :-(

My installation steps were:

boot form hda
=> hda is (hd0), hde is (hd1), hdg is (hd2)
invoke grub
root (hd1,0)
install /grub/stage1 (hd1) /grub/stage2

reboot, remove hda form bios

my board is an ocean rhino 12 (noname?!) with SMC669 chipset, but this
shoudn't matter I think, because thy system boots over the bios of the Promise
controller.

I hope someone here can help me...

Greetings from Germany
Bernhard Bock


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